“I am fine. We played the same tournament in Abu Dhabi a few years later [with Inter Milan]. When I was here back in 2005 we had all the news, the information from home. It was something you have to adapt to.”

Benítez has drafted 19-year-old Chelsea midfielder George Saville into the squad for the Club World Cup following the bad news of Oriol Romeu being ruled out for up to six months following knee surgery.